Decisions

I have decided I need to be more brutal when it comes to reading. So many times I’ll carry on struggling through a book even though I’m not enjoying it. To be fair, most times it just takes me a while to get into them and I eventually end up loving them and finish them off really quickly. But I don’t think I’ve actually finished reading a single book so far this year. So I am deciding now to give up on the book I’m struggling through (probably not forever…I might go back to it one day) and start a different one. One that I know I really want to read. 

I’ve been reading The Diary of a Murder by Lee Jackson, and I just haven’t got into it at all. I can usually sit down for hours and read loads but it just isn’t happening with this one. Before Christmas I read The Maze Runner by James Dashner and eventually got round to buying the whole series because I was majorly excited about reading my way through it. They’ve been sat on my bookshelf for about a month now, if not longer. 

And now I can’t sleep…I have come to the conclusion that if I’m not loving a book I shouldn’t waste my time on it. I don’t get much time to read now anyway, and the little time I do have, I’m not actually reading because it’s boring. So I’ve started The Scorch Trials. And I’m going to request Allegiant from the library. And I’m going to go back to enjoying reading. 

And then I’ll get on with something from my reading challenge. Promise. I started Pride and Prej…that’s got to count for something! I also started The Grapes of Wrath but then somebody requested it at the library so I had to take it back.

I’m full of empty promises…

I will get better! I should also really get better at blogging regularly.

I also made cupcake this afternoon…they were a miserable failure. Mainly because my housemate couldn’t believe that I still need to follow a recipe and wouldn’t let me find one and then I mixed everything wrong! I told her I needed instructions!! I covered them in chocolate icing…they’re not the worst cakes ever.